HUGE Hobbit Updates!

Those closely following news on the highly anticipated Hobbit trilogy have every reason to get excited. News recently broke that not only is the second film being retitled, a release date for the third film has been decided on!

The Hollywood Reporter announced that the second film, previously subtitled There and Back Again, will now be called The Desolation of Smaug. The title There and Back Again has been assigned to the third film, which is now due for release on July 18, 2014.

With the first film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, being released this holiday season, excitement over Peter Jackson’s return to Middle Earth is at an all time high. More updates are sure to come, so keep checking back!

What do you all think? Are you pumped about this new development, or are you still reeling from the news that The Hobbit is now a trilogy? Share your thoughts below!

http://lytherus.com PJ Carroll

I’m really curious to see how The Hobbit can be divided into three movies. I’m worried that it might feel a little stretched out. However, I am insanely excited to see the films.
LOTR4LYFE

THE MORE HOBBITS THE MERRY (get it?) -ER?
PrometheusLKR

I figure each hobbit movie will only be about 90 or 100 minutes long, so an amount of material that could easily be put into two movies but has been made into three for 1.5 times the profit.
superbob_92

I’ve never seen a movie fully capture the depth of a book before, no matter how short the book was. I’m really excited to see if Peter Jackson’s approach to this book will prove to be the key.
The Grey Rider

Well, I suppose if they’re going to be filling in what Gandalf was up to against Sauron in his aspect of the Necromancer and expanding on characters a bit the extra time is warranted.
I mean, half the characters in The Hobbit, even if they’re in Thorin’s company are rather peripheral.
Mistborn

I’m actually pretty apprehensive about this whole thing…fingers crossed that they’ll stay at least a little true to the books––I mean, book!